IRAN’S ROWHANI BRUSHES OFF NETANYAHU’S THREAT

TEHRAN: Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rowhani has brushed off threats of military action against the Islamic republic by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying such warnings only made him “laugh”, media reported on Wednesday. “When some (the United States and Israel) say that all options are on the table and when a miserable regional country (Israel) says such things, it makes you laugh,” Rowhani said in an address to Iran-Iraq war veterans, according to Iranian media reports.